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Quantitative theories of information flow give us an approach to relax the absolute confidentiality properties that are difficult to satisfy for many practical programs. The classical information-theoretic approaches for sequential…

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Secure sum computation of private data inputs is an interesting example of Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) which has attracted many researchers to devise secure protocols with lower probability of data leakage. In this paper, we provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-03-23 Rashid Sheikh , Beerendra Kumar , Durgesh Kumar Mishra

In recent years, secure multiparty computation (SMC) advanced from a theoretical technique to a practically applicable technology. Several frameworks were proposed of which some are still actively developed. We perform a first comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Marcel von Maltitz , Georg Carle

Nowadays, both the amount of cyberattacks and their sophistication have considerably increased, and their prevention is of concern of most of organizations. Cooperation by means of information sharing is a promising strategy to address this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Roberto Garrido-Pelaz , Lorena Gozalez-Manzano , Sergio Pastrana

In secure multi-party computations (SMC), parties wish to compute a function on their private data without revealing more information about their data than what the function reveals. In this paper, we investigate two Shannon-type questions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Eun Jee Lee , Emmanuel Abbe

A set of terminals observe correlated data and seek to compute functions of the data using interactive public communication. At the same time, it is required that the value of a private function of the data remains concealed from an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Himanshu Tyagi

In this paper, we investigate function computation problems under different secure conditions over a network with multiple source nodes and a single sink node which desires a function of all source messages without error. A wiretapper has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Min Xu , Gennian Ge , Minqian Liu

I study the effects of US salary history bans which restrict employers from inquiring about job applicants' pay history during the hiring process, but allow candidates to voluntarily share information. Using a difference-in-differences…

General Economics · Economics 2022-02-09 Sourav Sinha

The emergence of cloud computing provides a new computing paradigm for users -- massive and complex computing tasks can be outsourced to cloud servers. However, the privacy issues also follow. Fully homomorphic encryption shows great…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Lizhi Xiong , Wenhao Zhou , Zhihua Xia , Qi Gu , Jian Weng

We propose a general statistical inference framework to capture the privacy threat incurred by a user that releases data to a passive but curious adversary, given utility constraints. We show that applying this general framework to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Flavio du Pin Calmon , Nadia Fawaz

In secure multiparty computation (MPC), mutually distrusting users collaborate to compute a function of their private data without revealing any additional information about their data to other users. While it is known that information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deepesh Data , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Manoj M. Prabhakaran

The problem of reliable function computation is extended by imposing privacy, secrecy, and storage constraints on a remote source whose noisy measurements are observed by multiple parties. The main additions to the classic function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Onur Günlü

We present a distributed average consensus protocol that preserves the privacy of agents' inputs. Unlike the differential privacy mechanisms, the presented protocol does not affect the accuracy of the output. It is shown that the protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Nirupam Gupta , Jonathan Katz , Nikhil Chopra

Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) allows parties to know the result of cooperative computation while preserving privacy of individual data. Secure sum computation is an important application of SMC. In our proposed protocols parties are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Rashid Sheikh , Beerendra Kumar , Durgesh Kumar Mishra

Secure multi-party computation is a central problem in modern cryptography. An important sub-class of this are problems of the following form: Alice and Bob desire to produce sample(s) of a pair of jointly distributed random variables. Each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-10 Vinod Prabhakaran , Manoj Prabhakaran

The exchange of personal information in digital environments poses significant risks, including identity theft, privacy breaches, and data misuse. Addressing these challenges requires a deep understanding of user behavior and mental models…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Reza Shahriari , Eric D. Ragan

As large-scale theft of data from corporate servers is becoming increasingly common, it becomes interesting to examine alternatives to the paradigm of centralizing sensitive data into large databases. Instead, one could use cryptography and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Thomas Leaute , Boi Faltings

Access to diverse, high-quality datasets is crucial for machine learning model performance, yet data sharing remains limited by privacy concerns and competitive interests, particularly in regulated domains like healthcare. This dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Keren Fuentes , Mimee Xu , Irene Chen

Secure network function computation is a critical research direction in network coding, which aims to ensure that the target function is correctly computed at the sink node while preventing the wiretapper from obtaining any information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Qin Zhou , Fang-Wei Fu

Protecting the confidentiality of private data and using it for useful collaboration have long been at odds. Modern cryptography is bridging this gap through rapid growth in secure protocols such as multi-party computation,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Maximilian Zinkus , Yinzhi Cao , Matthew Green